7+ hour, 58+ min ago  (637+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 19, 2026 USGS has identified the potential for vast stores of pegmatite, a lithium mineral, in the southern Appalachians. The lithium-bearing pegmatites that once made North Carolina the heart of United States lithium…...

7+ hour, 58+ min ago  (331+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 19, 2026 Ward 250 became the first DOE-authorized reactor built outside a national laboratory after its Utah criticality demonstration. Issued in May 2025 to accelerate advanced reactor testing and strengthen domestic nuclear deployment, a federal…...

8+ hour, 43+ min ago  (401+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 19, 2026 ARPA-E's ROCKS program aims to accelerate the development of mineral exploration technologies. Much like DARPA drives the development of cutting-edge technologies for American defense, ARPA-E is the government's disruptive wing for…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (919+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 18, 2026 An updated resource outlines 780 million lb of copper, along with significant quantities of lead, zinc, cobalt, silver, and nickel at the proposed NVRO Metals Hub in Australia's Northern Territory. An industry-compliant…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (582+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 18, 2026 Energy Fuels said the federal financing would support expanded critical minerals processing at White Mesa and a planned U. S. rare earth metals and alloy facility. Adding federal financing support to its expanding…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (563+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 16, 2026 Preliminary tests shows that 13 rare earth elements respond to RZOLV's solution formulated for leaching gold. Preliminary testing indicates that RZOLV Technologies Inc.'s hydrometallurgical platform may have a role to play…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (512+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 16, 2026 The Department of War has conditionally committed $500 million to Phoenix Tailings to expand domestic rare earth processing capacity. Anchoring a roughly $1 billion financing push to expand U. S. rare earth processing capacity, the…...

4+ day, 53+ min ago  (699+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 16, 2026 Hot forging punches made from Foundation Alloy's MC-X " outlasting M2 tool steel under severe thermal conditions. For centuries, advanced alloys have been produced using the same fundamental approach " melting metals together and…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (695+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 15, 2026 USA Rare Earth runs three feedstock stream campaigns at its hydrometallurgical demonstration facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. USA Rare Earth has commissioned a hydrometallurgical demonstration facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, that…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (517+ words) The Elements of Innovation Discovered Metal Tech News - June 15, 2026 Switzerland-based Transamine has entered into a preliminary deal to offtake copper cathode, a high-purity form of the metal produced by electrowinning, from the proposed NVRO Metals Hub in Australia. NVRO Metals…...